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St. Marks Knights of Columbus Deliver for Camp
ClapHans Endowment Fund
Knights of Columbus
Council 12108 of St. Marks Catholic Church in
Norman made a contribution to the Camp ClapHans
scholarship endowment fund from proceeds from
their annual Tootsie Roll candy sale.
Vincent Kish, Grand Knight
of Council 12108, and Bob Winstead, immediate
past Grand Knight, presented Uwe von Schamann,
the J. D. McCarty Center's director of development,
with a check for $1,762.60.
Camp ClapHans is a summer
camp project of the J. D. McCarty Center for
children with developmental disabilities in
Norman. The Camp ClapHans scholarship endowment
fund is being established to help provide partial
and full scholarship opportunities for children
who want to attend Camp ClapHans.
Camp ClapHans will be
built in the southwest corner of the McCarty
Center's 80-acre campus on the east side of
Norman. Features of the camp will include: the
Sammy Jack mess hall, volunteer cabins, camper
cabins, an arts and crafts barn, swimming pool,
ropes course, a lake and camp fire site.
Ground breaking for Camp
ClapHans is scheduled for sometime this year.
The Knights of Columbus
were founded by a small group of men on October
2, 1881, at St. Mary's Church on Hillhouse Avenue
in New Haven, Connecticut. The Knights of Columbus
was the vision of a young parish priest by the
name of Father Michael J. McGivney who saw the
need for a Catholic men's service organization.
From that first council the Knights of Columbus
have grown to more than 13,000 councils and
1.7 million members in the United States and
abroad.
The J. D. McCarty Center
is Oklahoma's center of excellence in the care
and treatment of children with developmental
disabilities from birth to age 21. Founded in
1946, the McCarty Center treated only one diagnosis…cerebral
palsy. Today, this pediatric rehab hospital
has treated more than 70 different diagnoses
in the developmental disability category. The
McCarty Center is the only hospital of its kind
in Oklahoma and in an average year will treat
children from 70 of Oklahoma's 77 counties.
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